
Roman Vasyanov
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Biography
Roman Sergeyevich Vasyanov, ASC, RGC (Russian: Роман Сергеевич Васьянов; born October 24, 1980, in Moscow) is a Russian cinematographer. He is best known for his collaborations with director David Ayer and the Russian musical film Stilyagi, for which he was nominated for a Golden Eagle Award for Best Cinematography. Roman Vasyanov was born on October 24, 1980, in Moscow, in a Russian family. As a child, he was engaged in photography with his father, who worked at the ZIL automobile plant. Made photos and videos as a freelancer for magazines and newspapers. Later, thanks to his father's friend M. D. Koroptsov, he got acquainted with the profession of a cameraman. In 1998 he entered VGIK (the workshop of V. I. Yusov). At the XXIV International Film Festival, VGIK received the prize for the best camera work in the film "Hide and Seek" (dir. V. Panov). While studying at VGIK, he worked as an assistant cameraman to Yu. Raisky on the set of the cult TV series Brigada. Graduated from VGIK in 2003. Filmed over 300 commercials for Philips, Puma, Budweiser, Dell, Pepsi, and others. In 2008, he was the cinematographer for Valery Todorovsky's cult film Stilyagi. In 2012 he worked on David Ayer's police thriller End of Watch, which earned him a nomination as Best Cinematographer at the 28th Independent Spirit Awards. Afterwards Vasyanov worked on the movies The Motel Life and The East. Vasyanov again teamed up with Ayer for the World War II film Fury and the comic book adaptation Suicide Squad. Vasyanov has been a member of the Russian Guild of Cinematographers and the American Society of Cinematographers since 2022. Description above from the Wikipedia article Roman Vasyanov, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For

April, 1945. As the Allies make their final push in the European Theatre, a battle-hardened army sergeant named Wardaddy commands a Sherman tank and her five-man crew on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. Outnumbered and outgunned, and with a rookie soldier thrust into their platoon, Wardaddy and his men face overwhelming odds in their heroic attempts to strike at the heart of Nazi Germany.
Fury

From DC Comics comes the Suicide Squad, an antihero team of incarcerated supervillains who act as deniable assets for the United States government, undertaking high-risk black ops missions in exchange for commuted prison sentences.
Suicide Squad

A quartet of childhood pals who create a business together find themselves at the core of a powerful Moscow gang in the aftermath of an unplanned murder.
Brigada

In an alternate present-day where magical creatures live among us, two L.A. cops become embroiled in a prophesied turf battle.
Bright

Two young officers are marked for death after confiscating a small cache of money and firearms from the members of a notorious cartel during a routine traffic stop.
End of Watch

An American sniper and his spotter engage in a deadly cat-and-mouse game with an Iraqi sniper.
The Wall

Struggling to make ends meet, former special ops soldiers reunite for a high-stakes heist: stealing $75 million from a South American drug lord.
Triple Frontier

A handwritten manuscript of Dante Alighieri's poem "The Divine Comedy" makes its way from a priest to a mob boss in New York City, where it is taken by author Nick Tosches after he's asked to verify its authenticity.
In the Hand of Dante

A revolutionary militant, a thug, an underground writer, a butler to a millionaire in Manhattan. But also a switchblade-waving poet, a lover of beautiful women, a warmonger, a political agitator, and a novelist who wrote of his greatness. Eduard Limonov’s life story is a journey through Russia, America, and Europe during the second half of the 20th century.
Limonov: The Ballad

A group of U.S. soldiers returning from Iraq struggle to integrate back into family and civilian life, while living with the memory of a war that threatens to destroy them long after they've left the battlefield.
Thank You for Your Service

An operative for an elite private intelligence firm finds her priorities irrevocably changed after she is tasked with infiltrating an anarchist group known for executing covert attacks upon major corporations.
The East

In this hit Russian musical, a group of friends flaunts Soviet authority in 1950s Moscow by embracing jazz. When Communist Mels falls for Polly, a free-spirited jazz fan, he risks losing his party membership by associating with her rebellious crew.
Hipsters

A young American falls hard for a Romanian cellist whose father has recently died -- and whose violent past could bring about his own demise.
Charlie Countryman

Agent of special department "Piranha" Kirill Mazur and his colleague Olga go to the far north with the assignment to liquidate an underwater secret weapon lab in the guise of a mutual vacation. All of a sudden, they find themselves in the world where civilization laws are forgotten, and this deadly weapons are kept by gangsters who are controlled by a new "master of taiga" Prohor, whose leisure time is spent hunting at humans. Mazur didn't know that he would have to trade his familiar gun for a hand-made bone knife, and save his companion and himself instead of saving the world. For them, this safari in northern forests would be no less dangerous as for the live targets.
Piranha Hunt

A maniac terrorizes a town during rainy nights. And exactly on one rainy night a student has a night shift in a 24-hour shop. And exactly on this night the owner of the shop goes to play in a casino, his wife wants to be entertained, a detective is awaiting for a crime to be committed and certainly... the maniac begins hunting.
Graveyard Shift

In the near future, sentient robots are targeted for elimination after they develop emotional symmetry to humans and a revolutionary war for their survival begins.
Rise

A pair of working-class brothers flee their Reno Motel after getting involved in a fatal hit-and-run accident.
The Motel Life

Odessa, August 1970. A heat wave. The city is full of tourists. Boris, a journalist and foreign affairs specialist, and his eight-year-old son Valeri arrive from Moscow to visit Boris’ in-laws, Grigori Iosifovich and Raisa Irovna Davidov. But on the day of their arrival, Odessa declares a quarantine due to a cholera outbreak, and the city is closed off. Having come for a few days, the son-in-law is plunged into a world changed by serious danger. Family secrets will be disclosed, improbable events happen, and a great forbidden love starts.
Odessa
A troubled doctor wakes up one morning to the sound of a mysterious voice in his head. With his reality now in question, the voice makes a series of escalating demands he must follow or devastating consequences will unfold.
Control

The film follows Denis, a young aspiring DJ who, although poor, has everything else in his favor: a calling in life as a musician, good friends and a faithful companion. Denis's fall from grace begins with a drug deal, which he agrees to out of the need for money. The decision leads to deadly consequences for almost everyone else around him, as Denis is subsequently forced to work as a drug dealer for a mafia boss and as an informer for the police chief of his city. Despite his attempts to “work off his sins”, Denis cannot escape the world of drugs and violence...